There are some events this week under the head of
Portugal. A Captain Camp?, a fine young Irishman, who lately held a commission in PEDRO'S army, was killed on the night of the 12th of March, in a scuffle, by one of the Portuguese Guard. The Lisbon correspondent of the'Courier says, in reference to this af- fair— " The papers will doubtless give you many versions of this melancholy catas- trophe; but the simple truth is, if divested of all prejudice, that it originated in the drunken turbulence of some English, and a life has unhappily been sacri- ficed ; a thing likely to happen when arms are put into the hands of timid men, who in difficulty lose their self-possession."
The Lisbon authorities are employed in investigating this affair.
It is said that some troops from Oporto have received orders to march towards the South, there being no opposing force of the Miguelites in that neighbourhood ; and that a detachment in Al- garve, tinder BERNARDO DE SA, would also move upon Santarem, where the main armies are still inactive. Admiral NAPIER was prevented by stormy weather- from capturing Figueira ; but there was no doubt, in Lisbon, that he would soon be able to reduce that place. From all this it would seem, that the Pedroites, for the twentieth time, are going to drive MIGUEL out of Portugal.
A decree has been issued for the confiscation of the Usurper's private property.
The Court of Lisbon was in a state of consternation when the last letters were written. Anger and dismay were portrayed on the countenances of every courtier, and even Don PEDRO and the Queen were at a loss to preserve their equanimity. The author of this distress se as the British Ambassador, Lord HOWARD DE WAL- DEN; who, fancying that a style of dress which had received the approbation of that great martinet GEORGE the Fourth, would not be disagreeable at Lisbon, actually went to be presented to the Queen at the Palace of Ajuda with his diplomatic legs cased in calfskin—the man wore boots! The impression created by this want of attendance to the etiquette of the Court, the correspon- dent of the Times declares to have been "very unpleasant."
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